What should we tell our students?

Re:What should we tell our students? by Jsebast24 on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:26PM (#50024732)

You got this right, these are incredibly exciting times. Take your friend of a friend's as an example. AI's are trained with existing information, so obviously whatever he expected to discover was already out there. It took the machine 3.5 hours to find and sort out something that would take a human 10 years. Now your F of a F can dedicate the next 10 years to do what the machine cannot do: find meaning and insight.

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Re:What should we tell our students? by leereeves on Friday October 09, 2026 @06:33PM (#50027412)

> AI's are trained with existing information, so obviously whatever he expected to discover was already out there.

I've wondered about that myself. Does the fact that LLM's were able to solve these problems so easily indicate that most of the solution already existed, scattered in the training data, and the LLM was simply able to put together the pieces?

I think it's an interesting conjecture but nothing more without proof.

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Re:What should we tell our students? by kolinko on Monday October 12, 2026 @07:25AM (#50054790)

If I understand correctly, some of the papers in the recent OpenAI release had truly novel insights. Just a bunch but it proves the principle.

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